Eigentijds en Participatief Verzamelen

Léontine Meijer-van Mensch

Sensual Turn

Weil 2005, 2006

ends versus means

A museum is a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment. International Council of Museums

A museum is a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment. means

A museum is a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment.

ends

social inclusion

• Access • Representation • Participation

Richard Sandell

social inclusion

• Inclusive museums

• Museums as agents of social regeneration • Museums as vehicles of broad social change • The activist museum

David Kolb Bernice McCarthy Rita Mukherjee Hoffstadt

personal histories

medical knowledge

industry and politics

social impact

example: AIDS

Retrospective collecting Contemporary collecting

“Incubation Period”

Archives: 50 (20, 30) years Monuments: 50 years Louvre – Musée de Luxembourg Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam) - Museum van

Levende Nederlandsche Meesters (Haarlem, 1828-1885)

utilitarian value

trans-historic cultural value

region of fixed assumptions

region of indeterminacy

region of fixed assumptions

transient durable rubbish

Michael Thompson, Rubbish theory (1979)

utilitarian value

transient rubbish

primaire context

utilitarian value

trans-historic cultural value

transient durable rubbish

(after Thompson 1979)

museologische context

utilitarian value

trans-historic cultural value

region of fixed assumptions

region of fixed assumptions

transient durable

Michael Thompson, Rubbish theory (1979)

forced musealisation

• Contemporary collecting • Documenting the present • Documenting the present by collecting objects

Documenting the present

• Natural history museums • Art museums • Ethnographical museums • Cultural history museums • Science and technology museums

Documenting the present

• Natural history museums • Art museums • Ethnographical museums • Cultural history museums • Science and technology museums

City museums

Collecting strategies

Retrospective collecting - Selecting from incomplete cohesive ensembles (archives, archaeological heritage) - Assembling decontextualised (and recontextualised) individual objects Contemporary collecting - Selecting from antropological perspective of a not-involved outsider - Self-documentation/participatory collecting

Projecten 1

• Bewaarplannen • Foto-opdrachten (Rijksmuseum) • War artists

Projecten 2

• Brieven aan de toekomst (15 mei 1998) • FotoMonument 2000 (7-13 december 2000) • Sound scape 9-9-99 • De tien van 2012

www.detienvan2012.nl

1920 1960 1970

Pim Fortuyn (1948-2002)

6 May 2002

Theo van Gogh (1957-2004)

2 November 2004

Nordiska Museet (Stockholm) 1873, 1907

• 1977 • 82 members (museums, archives, academic

institutions)

Samdok

Network, created in 1977 Primary mission: supporting cultural history museums in collecting contemporary objects Network to organise collecting and to distribute responsibilities

Homes pool 1978

Homes pool

Public administration Pool

Service Pool

Communication Pool

Trade Pool

Construction Pool

Textiles Pool

Food Pool

Timber and Paper Pool

Metal Pool

Agricultural and Forestry Pool

Homes Pool

Public administration Pool

Service Pool

Communication Pool

Trade Pool

Construction Pool

Textiles Pool

Food Pool

Timber and Paper Pool

Metal Pool

Agricultural and Forestry Pool

Group for Cultural Encounters 1993

Domestic Life

Local and Regional Spheres

Society and Politics

Leisure

Services

Nature and Natural resources

Manufacture

Saami Life

Group for Cultural Encounters

1997

Selection criteria

• Frequency criterion • Step-ladder criterion • Representativity criterion • Appeal criterion • Domain criterion • Form criterion

Documenting the present

• Documenting what disappears • Documenting continuity/tradition • Documenting change/the new

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Contemporary, but …..

• presented to the museum at the moment that the gay community itself was losing interest

Relevant, but …..

• the musealisation process prohibits the active use as

- personal remembrance of partners/relatives - educational/activist tool outside the museum space

Possible solutions …..

• Exploring the potential of intermediate forms of case (“musealisation light”)

• Exploring the potential of shared ownership (“dynamic collections”)